Antony will not participate on Wednesday when Ajax takes on Liverpool in the Champions League. Erik ten Hag did not want to discuss the reason for the absence of the twenty-year-old Brazilian at the press conference on Tuesday, but did indicate that the attacker was ‘not fit’. Ajax watcher Mike Verweij thinks that Antony is infected with the corona virus. At the same time, Verweij shares his surprise that Lisandro Martínez makes so few minutes at Ajax this season.

“Corona? That has not yet been confirmed,” says the journalist The Telegraph in a video on the newspaper’s site about Antony’s situation. “But Erik ten Hag and Dusan Tadic had interviews with the rights holders and when Ten Hag said that Antony is not there. That shocked Tadic. It had just become known. It cannot be otherwise than that the results of the corona test have just been announced. has become.”

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“Keep me for the better. It has not been officially known and confirmed, but it seems that it is indeed corona,” said Verweij, who expects Tadic to play in the striker against Liverpool and David Neres and Quincy Promes on the flanks. Davy Klaassen, Mohammed Kudus and Ryan Gravenberch will play in midfield, according to the reporter. Verweij finds it striking that Martínez is suddenly less in the picture at Ten Hag.

“He did very well last season. He played 24 of the 25 matches in the league. He is completely out of the picture this year, for incomprehensible reasons. Ten Hag apparently no longer sees a midfielder in him, but a defender. Dan. I think he will be the stand-in of Daley Blind or Nicolás Tagliafico if anything happens to him. he does not appear in Ten Hag’s plans for the time being “, Verweij concludes.